I manage a lot of 2k servers and I almost never term into them. I do ALL of my maintenance and most troubleshooting through shell scripting, wmi, and perl. I dig *nix as well. Attack not that which you do not fully understand. Not all of us are stupid. Seriously.
Q.Is it illegal to link to other sites that have unauthorized sound files, even if my own site doesn't offer any? A. Liability for copyright infringement is not necessarily limited to the persons or entities who created (or encoded) the infringing sound file. In addition to being directly liable for infringing conduct occurring via the site, a linking site may be contributorily or vicariously liable for facilitating copyright infringement occurring at the sites to which it links.
Contributory liability may be found where a person, with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes, or materially contributes to the infringing conduct of another. A link site operator may be liable for contributory infringement by knowingly linking to infringing files.
Vicarious liability may be imposed where an entity has the right and ability to control the activities of the direct infringer and also receives a financial benefit from the infringing activities. Liability may be imposed even if the entity is unaware of the infringing activities. In the case of a linking site, providing direct access to infringing works may show a right and ability to control the activities of the direct infringer and receiving revenue from banner ads may be evidence of a financial benefit.
I remember plugging my friends Winchestor drive into his new 386sx/16. After a little smoke and some really loud buzzing, never was another floppy read in that box.
Note to self: just because connectors match doesn't mean they work.
Breaking shit is the best way to learn, even for a kid.
I grow weary of this argument that "console makers get it right the first time". Console games have revisions as well, you just have to pray that the bugs you suffer through aren't showstoppers. Sometimes they are (thanks Midway). Just because there are no rogue processes to step on a game doesn't mean no bugs exist. Hell, sometimes they change UPC symbols between revisions. I have had two exchanges blown because of this.
I love my consoles. I prefer them to PCs for gaming (save for Action Half-Life). But nothing is flawless.
Everything that interests you will be nostalgia before you die. Someday you will be the geezer in the nursing home rolling around humming Ice Ice Baby and talking about Quake to disinterested orderlies who's hobbies you cannot today and probably not on that day begin to imagine or comprehend.
That doesn't mean don't enjoy it today. I stayed up way too late last night playing Virtua Tennis. It ruled. This moment of depression brought to you by unreasonable deadlines and sleep deprivation.
Sega and more importantly their parent company is publicly traded. Take a look, they are UNPROFITABLE. They make great games, and rather than renting to try and buying what you like people steal them. They make money from software, not hardware, and say what you will: this is theft. I choose to support Sega with my money. I sincerely hope that they succeed in both financial terms and in shutting down DC piracy. Can you really blame them?
RTFM. You "lost" your data because you didn't read the helpfile. Let me guess: you did a full repair because you didn't know what else to do? RTFM. It still could be recovered very easily. You can't expect to power linux without reading *something* either.
The article is talking more about driver and hardware issues that windows issues. They are valid issues raised, IMHO. I only come back to gaming on my pc for the occasional exceptional game. Otherwise, it's not worth the headache. I deal with technical issues all freaking day. My Dreamcast has never crashed on me (except for that Ready 2 Rumble disc I got at launch). I mean honestly - an entertainment device should be an appliance more akin to a toaster than a PC. And the argument that the window for joint development of PC/console titles being 6 months is absurd. Right now developers target Playstations and PCs. How much more different can you get? Until PCs are _substantially_ more powerful than the xbox, things will have to be toned down for the *big brother*, the pc. Don't get me wrong, PC games will still be around but theye will be like the theatrical release of software: Non-snooty types need not apply. The vast majority of the populace will want ease and flash, not pc installation spiked anal probes.
I have been watching DVDs and playing Deus Ex on my Toshiba Tecra 8100 for days now. Works like a champ. You'd have to see it to believe it. Funny side note: support for Linux is better than support for W2K for the video chipset.
DSL host based adaptors will likely not be as large a performance hit as MNP5 compression and software flow control will not be an issue as it is with a host based modem. On a winmodem, disable all compression on watch latency drop markedly. Of course, until I see it on Ars or the like, I'll reserve judgement.
I agree. Leave your NT server at the gina. Period. Explorer is tremendous unneccessary overhead. I actually had a previous employer years ago who thought that the print server had crashed because I logged out of it. After that he wrote a policy that all NT servers had to be logged in. No lie. Of course, that was better than his DG Unix policies...
Server. Unneccessary apps. What is the argument? I am not advocating one operating system or the other. My linux boxes work great. So do my NT boxes. Sh!t, my BeOS box kicks ass. But if you have these serious problems with an OS, the problem is probably between the keyboard and the chair. All of that being said, I dare you to download some moron's freeware app and trust it not to have pointers killing your system. Server. Unneccessary apps. Really people. Certainly there are plently of folks at/. that could run circles around me technically, but it's a server. It is very important and should be left in a stable condition. As far as rethinking my comments, I think about this very often. I often entertain the idea that people will start reading documentation and stop doing *mentally challenged* things, and that I will consequently be out of a job. Alas, no one has ever gone broke underestimating the public. In as much as I hate fixing problems that never should have occurred, I do enjoy eating. So unless you're running god's own OS, please, for the sake of all that is holy, don't put freeware user mode apps on your servers. Or do, I guess I may as well be shouting into the wind. This message may have come across as argumentative. Perhaps it is. But religious fervor for an OS is not a winning strategy (or at least, it didn't work for Apple [and I love my mac,too]). I have seen NT servers that have not been rebooted for literally over a year. And not just one:). ICQ server beta in the mix and all bets are off. Anyhow, believe me or not.
I don't mean to sound argumentative, but if your NT server issued a STOP every week or two you needed to investigate your operating environment. Perhaps freeware phase of the moon tracking software that resides in the system tray and that freeware instant messaging software that runs in user mode should have been disabled...
Good lord people, read the documentation! Say you have an IBM Netfinity 3500 and you want to go above SP3. A 3 minute jump to IBM's webpage says what to do to avoid a STOP 0x0000007B. It's not rocket science. If you have a Compaq, surely you're familiar with the SSD/Softpaq/ROMPaq dance of death. The major problems with service packs for NT (other than SP2, obviously [oops!]) is MS' attempts to add features, not hotfixes, e.g. RRAS, WBEM, etc. And that is stopping. Too many support headaches. Hope this post didn't come across as rude, but I see these problems all the time and I have to fix them.
I think that year based numbering schemes are great, except for the fact that Microsoft doesn't even follow them. Is that Windows 95? Or Windows 95 B? Oh, it's Windows 98. Is is Windows 98 SE? My opinion is that if you are going to standardize on a naming system, be consistent. ESPECIALLY if it is going to be on the shelf selling for full price as a new product.
Okay, more info. I just read through some of Hitachi's SH4 programming manual (ouch) and it says that the Dreamcast can only sustain 900 MFLOPS. Interesting. Marketing didn't mention that.
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I manage a lot of 2k servers and I almost never term into them. I do ALL of my maintenance and most troubleshooting through shell scripting, wmi, and perl. I dig *nix as well. Attack not that which you do not fully understand. Not all of us are stupid. Seriously.
http://www.riaa.org/Music-Rules-2-FAQ.cfm
Boy, this is concise. What a bunch of c0ckbiters.
Q. Is it illegal to link to other sites that have unauthorized sound files, even if my own site doesn't offer any?
A. Liability for copyright infringement is not necessarily limited to the persons or entities who created (or encoded) the infringing sound file. In addition to being directly liable for infringing conduct occurring via the site, a linking site may be contributorily or vicariously liable for facilitating copyright infringement occurring at the sites to which it links. Contributory liability may be found where a person, with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes, or materially contributes to the infringing conduct of another. A link site operator may be liable for contributory infringement by knowingly linking to infringing files. Vicarious liability may be imposed where an entity has the right and ability to control the activities of the direct infringer and also receives a financial benefit from the infringing activities. Liability may be imposed even if the entity is unaware of the infringing activities. In the case of a linking site, providing direct access to infringing works may show a right and ability to control the activities of the direct infringer and receiving revenue from banner ads may be evidence of a financial benefit.
I remember plugging my friends Winchestor drive into his new 386sx/16. After a little smoke and some really loud buzzing, never was another floppy read in that box. Note to self: just because connectors match doesn't mean they work. Breaking shit is the best way to learn, even for a kid.
I grow weary of this argument that "console makers get it right the first time". Console games have revisions as well, you just have to pray that the bugs you suffer through aren't showstoppers. Sometimes they are (thanks Midway). Just because there are no rogue processes to step on a game doesn't mean no bugs exist. Hell, sometimes they change UPC symbols between revisions. I have had two exchanges blown because of this.
I love my consoles. I prefer them to PCs for gaming (save for Action Half-Life). But nothing is flawless.
Oh, the water gun moderator doesn't like me.
FIRST POST!
Now we can talk.
Must be a slow day.
Everything that interests you will be nostalgia before you die. Someday you will be the geezer in the nursing home rolling around humming Ice Ice Baby and talking about Quake to disinterested orderlies who's hobbies you cannot today and probably not on that day begin to imagine or comprehend.
That doesn't mean don't enjoy it today. I stayed up way too late last night playing Virtua Tennis. It ruled.
This moment of depression brought to you by unreasonable deadlines and sleep deprivation.
This too shall pass.
Have you played any Nintendo games? Even "serious" gamers play games for fun, right?
Sega's OS is called Dragon. It's not bad, from what I read.
Sega and more importantly their parent company is publicly traded. Take a look, they are UNPROFITABLE. They make great games, and rather than renting to try and buying what you like people steal them. They make money from software, not hardware, and say what you will: this is theft. I choose to support Sega with my money. I sincerely hope that they succeed in both financial terms and in shutting down DC piracy. Can you really blame them?
RTFM. You "lost" your data because you didn't read the helpfile. Let me guess: you did a full repair because you didn't know what else to do? RTFM. It still could be recovered very easily. You can't expect to power linux without reading *something* either.
The article is talking more about driver and hardware issues that windows issues. They are valid issues raised, IMHO. I only come back to gaming on my pc for the occasional exceptional game. Otherwise, it's not worth the headache. I deal with technical issues all freaking day. My Dreamcast has never crashed on me (except for that Ready 2 Rumble disc I got at launch). I mean honestly - an entertainment device should be an appliance more akin to a toaster than a PC. And the argument that the window for joint development of PC/console titles being 6 months is absurd. Right now developers target Playstations and PCs. How much more different can you get? Until PCs are _substantially_ more powerful than the xbox, things will have to be toned down for the *big brother*, the pc. Don't get me wrong, PC games will still be around but theye will be like the theatrical release of software: Non-snooty types need not apply. The vast majority of the populace will want ease and flash, not pc installation spiked anal probes.
I have been watching DVDs and playing Deus Ex on my Toshiba Tecra 8100 for days now. Works like a champ. You'd have to see it to believe it. Funny side note: support for Linux is better than support for W2K for the video chipset.
DSL host based adaptors will likely not be as large a performance hit as MNP5 compression and software flow control will not be an issue as it is with a host based modem. On a winmodem, disable all compression on watch latency drop markedly. Of course, until I see it on Ars or the like, I'll reserve judgement.
Umm... Have you ever used the backup in W2k? It doesn't suck.
I agree. Leave your NT server at the gina. Period. Explorer is tremendous unneccessary overhead. I actually had a previous employer years ago who thought that the print server had crashed because I logged out of it. After that he wrote a policy that all NT servers had to be logged in. No lie. Of course, that was better than his DG Unix policies...
Server. Unneccessary apps. What is the argument? I am not advocating one operating system or the other. My linux boxes work great. So do my NT boxes. Sh!t, my BeOS box kicks ass. But if you have these serious problems with an OS, the problem is probably between the keyboard and the chair. All of that being said, I dare you to download some moron's freeware app and trust it not to have pointers killing your system. Server. Unneccessary apps. Really people. Certainly there are plently of folks at /. that could run circles around me technically, but it's a server. It is very important and should be left in a stable condition. As far as rethinking my comments, I think about this very often. I often entertain the idea that people will start reading documentation and stop doing *mentally challenged* things, and that I will consequently be out of a job. Alas, no one has ever gone broke underestimating the public. In as much as I hate fixing problems that never should have occurred, I do enjoy eating. So unless you're running god's own OS, please, for the sake of all that is holy, don't put freeware user mode apps on your servers. Or do, I guess I may as well be shouting into the wind. This message may have come across as argumentative. Perhaps it is. But religious fervor for an OS is not a winning strategy (or at least, it didn't work for Apple [and I love my mac,too]). I have seen NT servers that have not been rebooted for literally over a year. And not just one :). ICQ server beta in the mix and all bets are off. Anyhow, believe me or not.
I don't mean to sound argumentative, but if your NT server issued a STOP every week or two you needed to investigate your operating environment. Perhaps freeware phase of the moon tracking software that resides in the system tray and that freeware instant messaging software that runs in user mode should have been disabled...
Good lord people, read the documentation! Say you have an IBM Netfinity 3500 and you want to go above SP3. A 3 minute jump to IBM's webpage says what to do to avoid a STOP 0x0000007B. It's not rocket science. If you have a Compaq, surely you're familiar with the SSD/Softpaq/ROMPaq dance of death. The major problems with service packs for NT (other than SP2, obviously [oops!]) is MS' attempts to add features, not hotfixes, e.g. RRAS, WBEM, etc. And that is stopping. Too many support headaches. Hope this post didn't come across as rude, but I see these problems all the time and I have to fix them.
I think that year based numbering schemes are great, except for the fact that Microsoft doesn't even follow them. Is that Windows 95? Or Windows 95 B? Oh, it's Windows 98. Is is Windows 98 SE? My opinion is that if you are going to standardize on a naming system, be consistent. ESPECIALLY if it is going to be on the shelf selling for full price as a new product.
Okay, more info. I just read through some of Hitachi's SH4 programming manual (ouch) and it says that the Dreamcast can only sustain 900 MFLOPS. Interesting. Marketing didn't mention that.
Check out the Enigma literature that they have. Good stuff actually, if a _little_ dry. It's also interesting to get the history of the NSA.